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202 HENSHAW, American Birds in Hawatt. Tuly 
Recently two Glaucous Gulls followed one of the U. S. trans- 
ports from San Francisco clear into Hilo harbor where they 
lingered for several weeks and then disappeared, no one knows 
where. ‘This particular transport happens to be painted white, 
which fact recalls the statement of an old mariner that Gulls are 
much more likely to follow in the wake of a white vessel than of 
any other, the simple explanation being that the birds are not so 
likely to lose track of a white vessel. 
I have examined two Glaucous Gulls, shot in Hilo harbor, 
during my five years’ residence in Hilo out of five or six that 
have been reported in this interval. One of them was in fine 
condition but the other weak and much emaciated. 
I believe that none of these wanderers ever attempt to return 
to America but their final fate is unknown. No hint of the 
Glaucous Gull establishing itself upon the Hawaiian Islands is 
recorded, so far as I know, and the Islands are but illy adapted 
to their habits. The bird islands to the northwest, Laysan and 
others, would seem to be in every way adapted to this bird, and 
there in time the Glaucous Gull may become established. 
That other species of American Gulls occasionally find their 
way to the Islands in the wake of vessels, especially to the harbor 
of Honolulu, is highly probable, and only the paucity of observers 
has prevented their detection and record. 
Brown GooneEy (Diomedea chinensis) . 
Every outward bound steamer and sailing vessel is met when 
well off shore from San Francisco by a number of Brown Goonies 
that fall into the vessel’s wake and attach themselves to her till 
within a few hundred miles of the Islands, occasionally till 
within sight of port. As this Albatross was found by Mr. Roths- 
child’s collector, Mr. Palmer, breeding abundantly upon Laysan 
there is nothing surprising in the above save the very business- 
like way the birds have of following vessels for the sake of the 
few scraps of meat thrown overboard, and the added fact that 
the Goonies also roost upon the vessels’ yards at night. 
